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Three Poems
into its own fixless dew-thighed-today i set out to find my missing vowels with me i have only the things you …
Strangers Among Us
Story for a dweller, a stranger, and a daughter
Land’s end. But there’s water, O my heart. And salt on my tongue. The end of the world. This is not …
Walks
My slanted strides put pressure forward Air in the space where we fog (our windows) collapsing downhill Letter paper folds over …
Let’s Run to the Womb and Back
the small explosion did it, skyward you tumbled too. chapped limbs smacking sunrays good morning. shoulders of honeycrisp apples, the bitten …
Eat 'em
I’ve figured it out The trick is eat everyone Eat ‘em all Put ‘em in your belly They can’t be mean …
Carnivore
Sometimes I lie on the bed and my body lists towards your softer side and I pretend that it is your …
Untitled Poem About Nazbol
*** yekaterina volkova: singer, actress, former lover of eduard limonov back in his day he dedicated many poems to her they …
Buccaneers
“Tell me a story,” he says. They’re sitting crouched in the corner of the room. Amanda has upended a table so …
The Trials of Odysseus and Me but Mostly Me
Perhaps it was the milk of the moon I drank tonight. Rivers poured vehemently. Poseidon. The sea was not as cold …
Embody
I spend the first week of May writing about bodies. I sit at library desks for two hours at a time …
Pissed Pants Academy
It was the day I met Paula Abdul on an airplane, and she was very beautiful, very glamorous, and she was …
Two Poems
content warning: body horror, sexual violence Princess Pāramitā I thought I told you to stop coming here. You make me sick, …
Reading Comprehension
Inspired by Arundhati Roy content warning: sexual harassment A Note to a Safety Presentation by a Commissariat de Police de Paris …
Twuz Dark
As the soon-to-be hero grows older it ventures further from the peasant village. The peasants fear for it a little. They …
Poems from the Series Postcards for Mira
“It’s 8:54 a.m. in Brooklyn it’s the 26th of July and it’s probably 8:54 in Manhattan but I’m in Brooklyn” -Ted …
Etymology for Catastrophe
Amid early springtime’s hesitant snowmelt a planet rearranges into loving explosions, confessing no objective but to glower, then to fade. Sprained …
the girls who will train you
have red nails and paws. have straight hair and red aprons. are getting married. are twenty two. dropped out of beauty …
thunderstorms mock me and so does the concrete
(for 3 days i have known but expected nothing) i watched every minute bring itself in fractions i waited 15, (but …
Term
I. October After the eviction, we returned to the old house once more to collect the dishes we had left in …
Quarters
(Excerpt from “On Currency”)
Oftentimes, people tell women not to wander off. When we are small, they mean to stay in the yard, and now …
Yellow Flower
i. the myth of resentment There in Mount Sinai I was trusted with the tablets of stone, but didn’t understand that …
The Horchata Man
My papa lived to bring happiness with his horchata. Everyday he made barrels of it to serve to his family and …
Autobiography of Writing
I would like to talk to you about writing. I'm a writer, even though I don't write much, but since I'm …